NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
Re: Plath bubble sextant on ebay (C&P versus Plath)
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2015 Feb 3, 09:28 -0800
From: Paul Saffo <NoReply_PaulSaffo@fer3.com>
To: garylapook@pacbell.net
Sent: Tuesday, February 3, 2015 6:31 AM
Subject: [NavList] Re: Plath bubble sextant on ebay (C&P versus Plath)
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2015 Feb 3, 09:28 -0800
How do you get a natural horizon with an A-10?
gl
From: Paul Saffo <NoReply_PaulSaffo@fer3.com>
To: garylapook@pacbell.net
Sent: Tuesday, February 3, 2015 6:31 AM
Subject: [NavList] Re: Plath bubble sextant on ebay (C&P versus Plath)
It is a C&P bubble horizon and $600 is more or less the going price for them. As you note, it does not have a bubble adjuster, but in my opinion, the design of the reticle makes an adjustment all but unnecessary. I have one like this, plus an A10 bubble converted for a marine sextant (thanks, Bill Morris!) and two Plath models (not Firefly). I'd rank the C&P first, the A10 second, and the Plaths 3rd. To put it another way, I always reach for the C&P first, and the Plaths are gathering dust in a drawer.
-p
